A scam put together to sell courses, I had a similar experience to the other negative reviews on here. If a recruiter ever asks you to buy a course, run away.
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Hamza
TLDR: I think this is a recruiter who wants to sell (by strongly recommending) financial courses in excess of £899
They may book you in for an “interview” and then ask you legitimate questions on behalf of a company that is interested in you. They did not disclose the identity of that company to me because of “contractual obligations”. The interview process may mimic a real-life interview. For instance, with me, they began with questions like why a career in finance then moved onto behavioural questions like; 1. Tell us about a time you had to overcome difficulty 2. Describe when you had to work until a tight deadline and lastly, they asked me how I would add value to the company. At this point, I asked again if I could know the name of the company to which the recruiter responded no. I was suggested to give a generic answer to this question. Afterwards, they may pretend they are putting you on hold while they are discussing your applications with their manager (as if 5 minutes are enough to discuss your application and then decide if you would want to progress further or not).
Throughout the interview, they told me that I gave an excellent answer even if the answer was unstructured. I think this was just to keep me motivated to stay on the call. Then they may tell you how you have a really strong application, but you need an “x” license - in my case some FCA or regulatory license. Afterwards, they claimed that luckily the firm would not be doing interviews for the next 4-6 weeks and in the meantime I could work towards attaining a qualification (despite having an MSc and BSc degree in Economics already). Only if I initiate the course, will my application be considered for an interview. This is despite the fact that the position advertised was trainee financial analyst, with the key word here “trainee”. Then I was asked to search a few regulatory courses on google, (how legitimate are these courses god knows?). Then the caller tried to convince me to buy a course to attain a said license. This entire call may take an hour and I think is designed in such a manner to make you think that you have already invested so much in the application and have a realistic chance to progress further, so you might as well buy the books or the courses which were advertised for excessive amounts like £899, not to mention the add ons.
